Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Celebrating the milestone of a million page views

It’s spring, and this blog just passed another milestone of
receiving 1,000,000 page views. That’s like everyone in the Honolulu metro area
stopping by for a look. Here is a list of my top ten most popular posts:

I often have been surprised by what does and doesn’t get popular.
#3 was an afterthought from a preceding post on December 26, 2011 about Walter
Lewin’s MIT lectures titled Finding and communicating wonder in physics. #5 was
followed on March 1, 2011 by what I thought was a more interesting post on a
simpler way (Timing Tiles) to add feedback titled Being second in my first
Toastmasters speech contest.

Two other educational posts I thought should have been way
more popular were the February 19, 2014 post on how Assertion-Evidence
PowerPoint slides are a visual alternative to bullet point lists and the February
24, 2015 post on How to do a better job of speech research than the average
Toastmaster (by using your friendly local public and state university
libraries)

Three recent posts I enjoyed writing and hope will become
popular are:

I also had lots of fun with using Photoshop Elements to
modify graphics like the recruiting poster of Uncle Sam that first showed up in
the July 6, 2009 post on Celebrate Freedom from Fear of Public Speaking Week
and again in the January 1, 2016 postRemember that only YOU can prevent bad
presentations.

About Me

This blog is about public speaking. The author is Richard I. Garber, ACS, a Toastmaster. From July 2008 to June 2010 he was Vice President-Education for Capitol Club Toastmasters in Boise, Idaho. Opinions expressed on this blog are those of the author alone, and are not the official positions of Toastmasters International, etc.
Richard is retired. He has over twenty years of experience as a consultant on failure analysis (figuring out why things busted or rusted) and a Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science.
His email is r_i_garber at hotmail.com

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